Companionship for Hospital Hospice Patients

About

AccentCare Hospice is seeking compassionate volunteers to help brighten the lives of the patients at our inpatient unit at DMC Harper University Hospital in Detroit. Whether you are playing music for our patients, praying with them, providing aromatherapy, reading aloud, or assisting with a legacy project, you can make a difference in the lives of hospice patients while they are in the hospital. While you are brightening our patients’ lives you might find that your life becomes brighter too!

AccentCare Hospice, formerly Seasons Hospice, serves patients and families across southeastern Michigan, including at our inpatient unit in Detroit. We are currently seeking new volunteers to visit our patients at DMC Harper Hospital and provide companionship, socialization, supportive presence, and so much more. Our direct care volunteers visit with patients to provide companionship, this might include music companions who use the power of music to provide comfort and relaxation. It could also include spiritual companions who share their faith with patients of the same religious background and complement the services of our chaplains. Legacy project volunteers might assist patients and families with creating meaningful projects to honor the patients’ life, and vigil volunteers provide supportive presence at the bedside of patients who are actively dying. These are just a few of the ways volunteers in our organization support our patients, families, and staff while they are at our inpatient unit.

Even if you only have a few hours a month to give, we would be honored to have you join our team and support our mission of offering compassionate, personalized hospice care. Training is free and flexible to fit your schedule and you are able to choose what area you want to serve.

We look forward to hearing from you and helping you find ways to share your time with those at the end of life.

Skills

• Animal Therapy
• Healthcare
• Hospice Care
• Music Therapy
• People Skills
• Spiritual Healing

Requirements

• Driver's License Needed
• Orientation or Training
• Background Check
• Time Commitment:There is no minimum monthly time commitment for this volunteer opportunity.
• Minimum Age:18

About the Organization

AccentCare Hospice and Palliative Care, formerly Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care provides hospice and palliative care to those with a life-limiting illness. Our team of physicians, registered nurses, social workers, spiritual care providers, hospice aides, trained volunteers and bereavement counselors use an interdisciplinary approach to address the physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs of the patients and families we serve.

SEASONS PROMISE

• We promise to enhance the quality of time by managing pain and other symptoms that can dimish the character of a patient's remaining days, weeks, and months. And we promise that our patients and families will not feel alone.